things seen right-to-left
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yamamanamaI didn’t get any drawing done because I went in and out by commuter rail.
For lunch, I had a pita wrap with salad, hummus, spicy pickles, amba (which is another type of spicy pickle) along with a sparkling pomegranate drink and some sour cherry and pistachio Turkish delight and I got a bowl at Cava for dinner.
I also bought The First Mage on the Moon and Boy, with Accidental Dinosaur. I also brought along the wrong book for when I finished An Image of Voices. Dangit.
It was the first 90 degree day of the year and the second above 80. And then it reached 96 on Tuesday. I met a shih tzu poodle mix at South Station and a big floofy girl and a fluffy boy and a tiny girl.
Erik Satie, Choses vues à droite et à gauche (sans lunettes) for violin & piano
That does translate to Things Seen Right-to-Left (Without Glasses). Lunette sounds like "little moon."
This is his only work for violin and piano and one of his rare chamber works.
It's broken down into:
Choral hypocrite (hypocritical chorus): a homage of sorts to Bach.
Fugue à tâtons (groping fugue): just kind of silly
Fantaisie musculaire (muscular fantasy): a parodic tour-de-force from the violin which just kind of fizzles out.
He lived out a rather interesting life. Changed his name from Eric to Erik. Got involved in a small religious group called the Ordre de la Rose-Croix Catholique du Temple et du Graal and invented a genre of music called static sound décor to accompany events. Then he broke away from that and started a religion of one, the Église Métropolitaine d'Art de Jésus Conducteur. He bought seven identical suits. Had his only love affair. Moved to a suburb and walked six miles to Paris every day, carrying an umbrella but putting under his coat whenever it rained because he didn't want to get it we. Then eventually died. They found no less than 100 umbrellas in his apartment.
Michael Stephen Brown, The Lotos-Eaters for flute, cello, piano & percussion
It's based on the Tennyson poem and I guess that's why lotus is spelled like that, which is itself from a section of the Odyssey (for those of you who have read Ulysses, chapter 5 is based on this as well)
I. "Courage!" he said, and pointed towards the land.
Opens with a bamboo shaker, a thundersheet, and a cellist making siren noises by moving the hand up and down the neck, and the pianist reaching inside and plucking the strings.
II. "Time driveth onward fast"
Constrasts the lotus-eaters staring into space (represented by the piano) and the sailors' hardship (represented by the percussionist hitting six tuned rice bowls with sticks)
III. "Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies."
Focuses on the flute.
IV. "They find a music centred in a doleful song streaming up"
Focuses on the cello.
V. "O, rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more"
Comes full circle with the thunder, the sirens, and the shakers. Not a Greek siren, more like an ambulance siren.
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Phantasy Quintet
Sounds like the English countryside. Like pretty much everything by Vaughan Williams except Symphony 1 (sounds like the sea), Symphony 2 (sounds like London), Symphony 3 (sounds like the French countryside), Symphony 7 (sounds like Antarctica) and some of his choral music.
Reena Esmail, Jhula Jhule (Back and Forth) for clarinet & piano
It takes modernistic piano and jazzy clarinet (this can be played on other instruments, as desired)
She went for folk songs from Goa and Gujarat for the melody but ended up using songs that were played for her; Ankhon vina andharon re, which I can find nothing about, and Jhule Jhule, a lullaby her mother would sing to her.
Maurice Ravel, Piano Trio in a minor
The first and last movements are based on Basque folksongs, the second is based on a Malay poetic form that had a cult following in France at the time this was written that features four line stanzas in which the second and fourth lines become the first and third line of the next stanza, and the third movement is a passacaglia, and the finale is a rondo of virtuosity.
I ganked this from somewhere and I shared this thought with Krissy: Much like in the show Dinosaurs, we have doomed ourselves with fake fruit.
burning question: do they only feed ai on slot machine instructions or why does it all look like that?
For lunch, I had a pita wrap with salad, hummus, spicy pickles, amba (which is another type of spicy pickle) along with a sparkling pomegranate drink and some sour cherry and pistachio Turkish delight and I got a bowl at Cava for dinner.
I also bought The First Mage on the Moon and Boy, with Accidental Dinosaur. I also brought along the wrong book for when I finished An Image of Voices. Dangit.
It was the first 90 degree day of the year and the second above 80. And then it reached 96 on Tuesday. I met a shih tzu poodle mix at South Station and a big floofy girl and a fluffy boy and a tiny girl.
Erik Satie, Choses vues à droite et à gauche (sans lunettes) for violin & piano
That does translate to Things Seen Right-to-Left (Without Glasses). Lunette sounds like "little moon."
This is his only work for violin and piano and one of his rare chamber works.
It's broken down into:
Choral hypocrite (hypocritical chorus): a homage of sorts to Bach.
Fugue à tâtons (groping fugue): just kind of silly
Fantaisie musculaire (muscular fantasy): a parodic tour-de-force from the violin which just kind of fizzles out.
He lived out a rather interesting life. Changed his name from Eric to Erik. Got involved in a small religious group called the Ordre de la Rose-Croix Catholique du Temple et du Graal and invented a genre of music called static sound décor to accompany events. Then he broke away from that and started a religion of one, the Église Métropolitaine d'Art de Jésus Conducteur. He bought seven identical suits. Had his only love affair. Moved to a suburb and walked six miles to Paris every day, carrying an umbrella but putting under his coat whenever it rained because he didn't want to get it we. Then eventually died. They found no less than 100 umbrellas in his apartment.
Michael Stephen Brown, The Lotos-Eaters for flute, cello, piano & percussion
It's based on the Tennyson poem and I guess that's why lotus is spelled like that, which is itself from a section of the Odyssey (for those of you who have read Ulysses, chapter 5 is based on this as well)
I. "Courage!" he said, and pointed towards the land.
Opens with a bamboo shaker, a thundersheet, and a cellist making siren noises by moving the hand up and down the neck, and the pianist reaching inside and plucking the strings.
II. "Time driveth onward fast"
Constrasts the lotus-eaters staring into space (represented by the piano) and the sailors' hardship (represented by the percussionist hitting six tuned rice bowls with sticks)
III. "Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies."
Focuses on the flute.
IV. "They find a music centred in a doleful song streaming up"
Focuses on the cello.
V. "O, rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more"
Comes full circle with the thunder, the sirens, and the shakers. Not a Greek siren, more like an ambulance siren.
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Phantasy Quintet
Sounds like the English countryside. Like pretty much everything by Vaughan Williams except Symphony 1 (sounds like the sea), Symphony 2 (sounds like London), Symphony 3 (sounds like the French countryside), Symphony 7 (sounds like Antarctica) and some of his choral music.
Reena Esmail, Jhula Jhule (Back and Forth) for clarinet & piano
It takes modernistic piano and jazzy clarinet (this can be played on other instruments, as desired)
She went for folk songs from Goa and Gujarat for the melody but ended up using songs that were played for her; Ankhon vina andharon re, which I can find nothing about, and Jhule Jhule, a lullaby her mother would sing to her.
Maurice Ravel, Piano Trio in a minor
The first and last movements are based on Basque folksongs, the second is based on a Malay poetic form that had a cult following in France at the time this was written that features four line stanzas in which the second and fourth lines become the first and third line of the next stanza, and the third movement is a passacaglia, and the finale is a rondo of virtuosity.
I ganked this from somewhere and I shared this thought with Krissy: Much like in the show Dinosaurs, we have doomed ourselves with fake fruit.
burning question: do they only feed ai on slot machine instructions or why does it all look like that?
